Siobhan Heanue

Siobhan Heanue is the ABC's South Asia correspondent, based in New Delhi. She was one of the only foreign journalists in Nepal when an earthquake struck in 2015, killing 9,000 people. She earned a Walkley nomination for her reporting on the disaster. Siobhan also reported from Iraq in the lead up to the battle for Mosul in 2016, before being appointed South Asia correspondent in 2017. Siobhan began her career with the ABC as a cadet in the Canberra newsroom. You can follow her on Twitter: @siobhanheanue.

Raphael Samuel, who identifies as an "anti-natalist", says he plans to take legal action against his parents — because they brought him into the world without his consent, and therefore, should pay for him to live.

A civil aviation report finds that the pilot of a plane that swerved erratically and flew dangerously low before crashing at Kathmandu airport last year, killing 51 people, was smoking in the cockpit during the flight.

Last month 15 "rat-hole" miners were trapped more than 100 metres underground in an Indian cave when the mine shaft they were working in flooded. Only one body has been recovered but the incident has received barely any attention.

Fellow athletes pay tribute to rafter Cassandra Emary, who was killed while kayaking in a river in Nepal — the third Australian killed while participating in adventure sports in the country in the past month.

Nearly a year after the downfall of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabweans are sleeping in petrol queues and spending hours lining up for basic food as a cash crisis sends the price of bread, sugar and petrol skyrocketing.

Thirty-four Indian schoolgirls are hospitalised after a boy, who was upset by the girls rebuffing his advances, brought his mother and a group of other local women and men to a playground to bash the girls with sticks and their bare hands.

In response to a spate of vicious sex attacks against young girls, including the rape and murder of schoolgirls and acid attacks on teenagers, Nepal's Government announces a ban on online pornography. The move is widely ridiculed as an ineffective way of combatting the violence.

Adultery is no longer a crime in India, after the country's highest court struck down a law instigated under British rule that made it illegal for a man to have sex with a married woman without her husband's consent.

Aadhaar is the world's largest biometric identity database and compels all Indian residents to hand over their personal details, including their iris scans and fingerprints, if they want basic services.

The Maldives election was supposed to cement the rule of Abdulla Yameen, but amid what appears to be victory for the Opposition, observers fear the strongman leader will not relinquish his hold on the tiny nation.

Zimbabwe's economy is in a parlous state after nearly 40 years of rule by Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party. The country has no currency of its own, and 90 per cent of people work in unofficial jobs, but still, the same party is ruling the country.

Pakistan is on edge as voters go to the polls today in national elections — if the vote goes smoothly, it'll be only the second time since Pakistan became independent 70 years ago that power has been transferred peacefully from one government to another.